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Faculty

Our faculty members are highly qualified professionals who offer preparation for conservatory exams, post-secondary entrance auditions and festival appearances.

Find a teacher by scrolling through our list or clicking on a name below.

Private lessons

Piano

Deborah Miles

Voice

Rachel Casponi
Heidi Muendel

Violin

Annette Dominik
Cvetozar Vutev
Sandra Wilmot

Viola

Cvetozar Vutev

Cello

Martin Kratky

Flute

Catharine Dochstader
Bailey Finley

Clarinet/Saxophone

Sally Arai

Trumpet

Nicholas Dyson

Country Fiddle/Bluegrass

Cvetozar Vutev


group lessons

Music Theory

Deborah Miles

Youth String Orchestra

Cvetozar Vutev

Music for Young Children

Jane Dyck

Country Fiddle

Cvetozar Vutev

Bluegrass

Cvetozar Vutev

our faculty

Sally Arai

Clarinet & Saxophone

Sally Arai
  • Principal Clarinet, Kamloops Symphony (22 years)
  • Master of Music (performance) and Bachelor of Music (general),
    University of British Columbia
  • Music for Young Children certified teacher
  • 24 years clarinet teaching experience
  • Festival adjudication experience
  • Provincial clinician

Rachel Casponi

Voice

rachel casponi

Rachel Casponi is a performer, director and educator holding a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Drama from University of Windsor and a Masters of Music from University of Western Ontario. She has worked across Canada including with BC’s North Peace Community Choir that she led at their Carnegie Hall performance. A regular performer with the Chamber Musicians of Kamloops and director of local choirs, Rachel teaches for Kamloops-Thompson School District and Kamloops Music Collective. She is very comfortable with both classical and musical theatre repertoire.


Catharine Dochstader

Flute and Flute Choir

Catharine Dochstader
  • Principal Flute, Kamloops Symphony (27 years)
  • Bachelor of Arts (music) and Associate of Music (flute performance), University of Western Ontario
  • Ontario Education Certification
  • Training in Kodaly, Orff, Suzuki and Yamaha music methods
  • 30 years flute teaching experience

Annette Dominik

Violin

Annette Dominik
  • Registered Suzuki ECC/Unit 1-violin teacher
  • Trained at Vancouver Academy of Music
  • 35 years of orchestral playing
  • Extensive chamber music experience
  • Founding member of the Kamloops Symphony

Nicholas Dyson

Trumpet

Nicholas Dyson recently relocated to the interior of beautiful British Columbia from Ottawa. While in Ottawa, Nicholas regularly performed with local and traveling musicians. Over the years, he has worked with numerous local and international musical legends and has also played with the National Arts Centre Orchestra Pops, Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Gatineau, Capital Brassworks, and in the pit orchestras of many musical theatres shows such as Book of Mormon and Motown The Musical.


Jane Dyck

Music for Young Children®

Jane Dyck
  • Royal Conservatory of Music ARCT Piano Performer
  • Royal Conservatory of Music Grade 4 Piano
  • Royal Conservatory of Music grade 10 Violin
  • Community member of the Kamloops Symphony - 11 years
  • Concertmaster of TRO
  • Private violin, piano and cello teacher for 11 years in Kamloops

Bailey Finley

Flute

 

Bailey Finley is a diverse flautist who avidly promotes new music. Her specialty is working with composers to develop new repertoire for the flute.

She is a co-founder of Trio Taco, a new music group that works to make contemporary music more approachable through education. With the trio, Finley has premiered numerous works and performed across Canada. During summer 2018 the trio completed a successful educational tour in Ontario featuring music by living composers.

Finley is an active performer in Victoria’s new music scene often collaborating with the Victoria Composers Collective and other local composers. She was a guest artist for the Victoria Composers Collective during their 2018 Okanagan tour and performer/organizer for their 3rd annual Oak Bay New Music Festival. Outside of the new music scene, Finley also pairs with Emily MacCallum to create a celtic flute and fiddle duo. February 2018 they hosted An Evening of Celtic Music in Kamloops, BC, which raised enough money to send a student to Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music.

Bailey values the sense of community and belonging that music can create and is working to help share this with as many people as possible. Many of her projects feature educational components, sliding scale admission fees and diverse composer demographics.


Martin Kratky

Cello

Martin Kratky
  • Principal Cellist, Kamloops Symphony
  • Assistant Principal, Okanagan Symphony Orchestra
  • Graduate of the University of Toronto, Bachelor of Music in Performance 
  • Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Master of Music
  • Also Teaches at the Kelowna Community Music school and the Penticton Academy of Music

Deborah Miles

Piano & Music Theory

Deborah Miles
  • Over 20 years teaching experience
  • ARCT Diploma with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
  • Participates in local music teacher meetings and attending national and international conferences to keep her skills current.
  • She incorporates the study of harmony, counterpoint, analysis, music history, pedagogy and performing into daily planning and training.
  • She has had the opportunity to work with a number of distinguished piano teachers such as Alexander Alexandrov, Mary Burns, Robert Rosen, and Janice Dahlberg.

Heidi Muendel

Voice

heidi muendel

Heidi Muendel (MMus), Dramatic Soprano has a Masters Degree in Music, is a trained opera singer, voice teacher and performer for over 25 years, and dynamic workshop leader. Heidi has recently moved from Germany back to her hometown, and looks forward to creating a safe and playful space to discover your unique voice.

Heidi works with singers of all genres with careful focus on vocal freedom, technique, performance quality, and vocal health. Her approach includes an honouring of the ‘whole’ singer, and is most effective for singers available to: change, discovering their own authenticity, and a bit of silliness.

Heidi has traveled and performed in Canada, United States, Germany, Austria, and Italy. She is the founder of the Life-Sound Studio, Frankfurt where she taught: private voice lessons, singing workshops and ‘Mini Musik’. She was team and workshop leader at the LIGHTHOUSE in Wiesbaden, and is currently providing an annual summer Festival of Singing in Germany, teaching locally in person, and internationally online


Cvetozar Vutev

Violin, Viola, Chamber Music, Youth String Orchestra, Country Fiddle, Bluegrass

Cvetozar Vutev
  • Master's degree in violin performance under Boyan Lechev at Pancho Vladigerov
  • State Academy of Music in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1990
  • Doctorate in musicology and musical arts at Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music in 2016
  • His violin teachers included also Yfrah Neaman (UK) and Wolfgang Marschner (Germany)
  • More than 30 years of violin teaching and performing experience
  • Performed in numerous solo, chamber, symphony and opera performances in 12 European countries, Rep.of Korea, Japan and Canada
  • Concertmaster with the Kamloops Symphony since September 2005
  • Concertmaster with Symphony of the Kootenays since 2016, and first violin player with the Okanagan Symphony since 2006
  • Performed several times as a soloist with the Kamloops Symphony and Symphony of the Kootenays
  • Music director of Vivace Chorale in Kamloops since 2007
  • Music director of Brandenburg Orchestra since 2012
  • Received the Kamloops Mayor’s Award for the Arts - Artist of the Year, Performing Arts in 2017

Sandra Wilmot

Violin

Sandra Wilmot

Sandra Wilmot is a Kelowna-based freelance violinist, educator, piano accompanist, clinician, journalist, and award-winning composer. She plays regularly with both the Okanagan and Kamloops Symphony Orchestras and maintains a large studio of private students and string ensembles at the Kelowna Community Music School, Kamloops Symphony Music School, and Penticton Academy of Music. She has played professionally with various other orchestras across Canada, including the Saskatoon Symphony, and has attended many prominent orchestral and early music intensive summer programs. Sandra has also worked extensively as a classroom music teacher and has taught at various summer music camps throughout the B.C. Interior and currently runs one of B.C.’s largest string camps, Strings the Thing which takes place every July in Kelowna. Sandra is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.

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